The Representation of Motion Events in English and German

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The Representation of Motion Events in English and German is written by Katharina Zaychenko and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3111319636 (ISBN 10) and 9783111319636 (ISBN 13).

The encoding of motion event components is a central element in determining the nature of linguistic and conceptual representations underlying motion event construal. This work approaches the verbalization and conceptualization of motion events in German and English from a theoretical point of view and on the basis of a corpus study, an online survey, and an in-person experiment. The research focuses on the investigation of different factors determining motion event construal of native speakers and learners by examining cognitive variables – i.e., visual endpoint salience and cognitive cost caused by non-habitual aspect use – and grammatical factors – i.e., grammatical viewpoint aspect.